Jay Robinson

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From Jake Stangel’s ongoing photography project about surfing in Oregon called “The Pacific.”

Jay Robinson (born 1915), Billie Holiday Singing the Blues, 1947, Oil on canvas.

Real Apple Logo by Edward Sanchez: “I wanted to make ‘the real Apple logo,’ based on the exact shape of their logo but fully textured as an actual apple.”

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“Mr. Jones a.k.a. Nas” illustration by Chris Bishop.

ckck:

“…And Beyond The Infinite” by Carlos Ramos.

Check out the rest of his Stanley Kubrick-inspired artwork here.

ianbrooks:

The sculpture is composed of a series of very familiar characters in the process of beaming up.  Spock, Kirk and McCoy are actually made up of semi translucent beads as the close ups here show.  When viewed up close the image blurs somewhat but from a distance are almost photographic in their realism.

Captain Kirk in bead form: still smooth.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/05/amazing-star-trek-sculpture-at.html

Gravité by Renaud Hallée

Threaded by David Lanham

One of my favorite artists, David Lanham, with a timelapse video of his vector drawing process.

An Unexpected Reminder About Why I Make Art

Jarrett Fuller:

“Whachu takin’ pictures of?”

I turn to see a large man—thick New York accent, tight black shirt, dark sunglasses, bluetooth headset, shaved head, gold jewelry adorning his ears, neck and wrists—start to approach me. I had just left my sister’s track meet and walked over to the part across the street to take a few quick shots.

“Just the water?”

“What? Yeah,” I nervously respond, not sure who he is or why he’s asking.

“I’m Ron.”

“Jarrett”

“Nice to meet you, man.”

“Yeah, you too.”

“You taking pictures for a class or just for yourself?”

“These are just for fun,” I say, “But I’m a graphic design major, so I do a lot of this stuff for school too.”

“Cool, man. I’ve been coming down here for 20 years taking photos. But you know what bro, no one respects it anymore. They throw trash everywhere. They don’t care.”

“I hear ya,” I say, still not sure what he wants.

“You should see the cameras I have at home, man. I got a Nikon. I got a Pansonic. I got a bunch of old Russian cameras…they shoot black and white film…you know what I’m talking about? Yeah…you know! They take awesome shots.”

We go on talking for a good ten minutes about cameras and music and B.B. King and anger and forgiveness and beauty and the time Ron protected the Polish people who happened to walk into the wrong bar at the wrong time.

“You know why I like shooting stuff like this? Because it’s good,” he goes on, “and we don’t know how long it will be here. It keeps disappearing, know what I mean, Jarrett. Not to be a pessimist man, but there is a lot of dark in the world these days.”

“I know what you mean. I think that’s why I’m an artist,” our conversation got pretty heavy pretty quickly, “There is so much despair and cynicism and depression in the world and maybe through my art, I can show people that there’s still some good left, you know, everything is amazing.”

“Yes, dude, yes! I love people like you. The world needs people like you,” Ron excitedly responds, “And you know what man, there are others like you. They are starting to come out. Their world has gotten so dark and they are slowly showing that light. They are making shit that’s making a difference and making the world better. We need them. We need you. I’m glad I stopped and talked to you man…Keep doing what you’re doing”

“Yeah, it was nice talking to you.”

So here’s to you, Ron. And everyone else making art that’s bringing light to a dark world. Thanks for reminding me why I do this.

Happy LOST Day

This season’s LOST has been the best one yet—undoubtedly since it was the first one written. The show has gone on about three seasons too long, and I am happy to finally get some answers.

Nevertheless, LOST’s mythology has inspired some amazing artwork. And with mashups like this, I expect it will for some time. There is no way J.J. is leaving us with a happy ending on May 23rd.

Enjoy this small portion of LOST art:

• Posters, posters, and more posters
• LOST 365 Project: #54
• Hurley and the Numbers
• Jack vs. Locke and Kate Evolution
• LOST cast as cartoons characters
• Season 6 in Black and White & LOST Tarot cards

Finally, LOST opening credits in the style of

• The Office
• The Wonder Years
• Full House
• Family Matters

Photo “Lost Tiki” by Dave MacDowell

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Penninsula Park by suzi54241. I love the detail and style in this iPad painting.

Neven Mrgan linked to some great iPad art this morning. Here’s mine. My drawing ability seems to be perpetually better than a 1st grader but worse than a 6th grader.

I’d love to see your iPhone/iPad original artwork. Photo reply to this post below.

Very cool posters for sale at Octophant.us. Phineas X. Jones’s art has an elaborate, retro, wood etching-feel.

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My first painting on iPad is of Ext JS CEO and all-around great guy Abe Elias. This doesn’t look exactly like Abe, but he was a good sport about it.

If you’re curious, I used the Brushes app and a $15 Pogo Sketch stylus. Highly recommend both.

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chaiwong: sarawood: fuckyeahyellow: pedrofernandes: paintings by Maria Zaikina.

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Adam Lisagor:

Cartoonist Andrew Fulton wants an iPad. So he put an offer on his site to sell you a custom iPad-themed illustration. … If you’d like an iPad portrait by Andrew go here.

Classy with a capital “C”. Consider mine ordered.